The lawyer for Laith Marouf, the Montreal consultant hired by Ottawa to teach anti-racism to Canadian broadcasters, urged The Canadian Press to quote his client’s tweets in full. So let’s go.
Posted at 5:00 a.m.
This one, first, to set the tone: “I have a motto: Life is too short for shoelaces or to entertain Jewish white supremacists with anything but a bullet to the head. »
This one, then, isn’t bad either: “You know all those big mouths full of human shit, those Jewish white supremacists; when we liberate Palestine and they have to go back to where they came from, they will be back to being whispering bitches to their white/secular supremacist masters. »
I hope Laith Marouf’s lawyer will forgive me for translating the tweets. Some subtleties may have gotten lost in translation. But it takes what it takes: our gentle anti-hate fighter, established in Montreal for over 20 years, hates French. He “hates” it to kill.
The proof, this angry tweet wrote last December: “I have a guttural response of disgust when I hear French, because no one has massacred more Arabs than them. Today, when we were bathing in the Dead Sea, this bunch of French tourists stole our towels and walked away like it was the land of Algeria or Syria, and I almost killed someone. a. »
Of French-speaking Quebecers, he writes: “LOL, I think the Frogs have a much lower IQ than 77, and French is an awful language. »
About the Americans, he is hardly more tender. In July, he posted a photo of himself giving the middle finger to the statue of Abraham Lincoln in Washington. “At the Lincoln Memorial, telling her what I think of her shit colony,” he wrote in explanation.
CAPTURE FROM LAITH MAROUF TWITTER ACCOUNT
Laith Marouf took another selfie at the Vietnam War Veterans Memorial, inscribed with the names of 58,000 Americans who died in that conflict. The well trained middle finger, once again. ” I would like to [le Mémorial] be much bigger”, he cursed.
CAPTURE FROM LAITH MAROUF TWITTER ACCOUNT
There are dozens of tweets like this. Surly. Violent. To speak in modern terms, let’s say that we are not in the register of microaggression.
Not sure if Mr. Marouf’s lawyer was well advised to ask the media to quote the full tweets. Not sure that it contributes to soften the image of his client. However, it must be done, according to the lawyer, to show that the man distinguishes between “Jewish white supremacists” and Jews in general.
But in reality, Laith Marouf does not care about this distinction. He wrote in a tweet: “I have long since stopped sharing the works of white Jews, even if they are anti-Zionist/anti-imperialist, because it reaffirms Jewish white supremacy in their heads and in those of colonized peoples. »
In other words, according to Laith Marouf, if you are white and Jewish, you are necessarily a supremacist, perhaps repressed, but a supremacist all the same, somewhere, in your head…
Head that deserves “a bullet”, let’s remember.
On Monday, Federal Diversity and Inclusion Minister Ahmed Hussen cut off funding to Laith Marouf and his organization, Community Media Advocacy Center (CMAC). The broadcaster education project is suspended until further notice. It’s the least of things.
Now the question arises: how could Ottawa retain the services of such an openly racist man to lecture the media on anti-racism?
How could the Department of Canadian Heritage grant $133,800 to an activist who had been denounced for a long time by Jewish groups in Canada?
How could he judge that a man who presents himself as a journalist on his website, but who collaborates with propaganda media like Sputnik (Russia) and Press TV (Iran), had any credibility?
If they had searched a little, the Ministry would have discovered that Laith Marouf was suspended from Twitter in the summer of 2021 because of his hate speech, before reappearing under another, private account. Screenshots of his tweets, however, circulate widely on the social network.
If it had pushed its research further, the Ministry would have learned that Laith Marouf had been expelled from Concordia University in 2001, after being surprised – twice! – to paint anti-Israeli slogans on the walls of the university. There had been no criminal charges, because the student enjoyed diplomatic immunity: his father worked for an international organization.
Yes, it is this man who makes a business of denouncing the privileges of others.
Laith Marouf had been given the mandate to organize consultations on media racism in six Canadian cities. The first was held on April 30, at UQAM. He began by saying that he recognizes that he is on unceded Inuit, Métis and First Nations lands. He went on to say that he uses the term “racialized” to identify Black, Indigenous and communities of color in Canada who experience “white dominance and colonialism”.
That’s the kind of talk Ottawa is looking for, I imagine, in an anti-racism consultant. Laith Marouf had the right words. He ticked the right boxes. Except one.
You just had to look a little, a little further.